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My Health Matters
NewFeature“My Health Matters” A community led intervention to reduce health inequalities related to physical activity and healthy eating
Governance for Health in the 21st Century
NewFeatureA range of collaborative governance mechanisms has developed in many policy arenas in the past decade. The study on governance for health in the 21st century tracks governance innovations that have been introduced to address priority determinants of health and summarizes them as five strategic approaches to smart governance for health. The study relates the emergence of joint action of the health sector and non-health sectors, of public and private actors and of citizens to achieve seminal changes in 21st-century societies. They include a new understanding of health and well-being as key features of what constitutes a successful society and vibrant economy and the higher value placed on equity and participation. The study further describes the type of structures and mechanisms that enable collaboration and outlines the new role that health ministers and ministries and public health agencies need to adopt in such a challenging policy environment.
“Sustainable drainage systems - maximising the benefits for people and wildlife, a guide for local authorities and developers”.
NewFeatureWe are seeing more and more water shortages and floods, sometimes and also in quick succession. This is partly because climate change is producing more extreme weather patterns but it also has a great deal to do with the way we manage the land. As we have removed hedges and woodlands and drained its natural wetlands, the countryside has become far less absorbent. As a consequence, rain in the hills now flows more rapidly down the streams and rivers into lowland towns and cities with potentially devastating results. There is also less time for the rain to soak in to the ground and less opportunity for natural reserves of drinking water to be replenished.
Health 2020 European Policy Framework
NewFeatureThe Health 2020 policy framework has been developed through a fully participatory process with Member States and a wide variety of other interested parties across the European Region. Early drafts were considered and discussed at several meetings of the European Health Policy Forum for High-Level Government Officials and the Standing Committee of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (SCRC). This final draft includes revisions discussed at the fourth session of the nineteenth SCRC held in Geneva, Switzerland on 19 and 20 May 2012. The draft has also been informed by a full written consultation and very many more informal comments and observations.
Assets in Action & Asset based approaches for health improvement: redressing the balance
NewFeatureAssets in Action: Illustrating asset based approaches for health improvement This piece of research profiles the work of 19 projects with the aim of illustrating how asset based approaches are currently being applied in Scotland. The aim of this Concepts Series briefing paper is to present the current evidence and thinking on asset based approaches for health improvement, the background and rationale for these approaches, and the practical challenges of adopting these approaches in reality. It is also hoped that this paper will help stimulate policy makers, practitioners and researchers to think differently about how they might minimise the risks of widening health inequalities and approach the goal of improving the health of communities and populations.
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)
NewFeatureThe Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) is co-directed by John L. McKnight, formerly the director of community studies at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, and his long-time collaborator in community research, John P. Kretzmann, a faculty member in the School of Education and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Associate. Challenging the traditional approach to solving urban problems, which focuses service providers and funding agencies on the needs and deficiencies of neighborhoods, Kretzmann and McKnight have demonstrated that community assets are key building blocks in sustainable urban and rural community revitalization efforts.
BMA Healthy transport = Healthy lives
NewFeatureA report from the BMA - The aim of this report is to demonstrate the positive effect that integrating health into transport policy will have. It proposes areas for action that prioritise health for all relevant transport sectors. This report is intended for transport, energy, sustainability and climate change policy makers with strategic or operational responsibility for public health and health promotion in the UK, and will be of interest to health professionals and the public.
From the Earth Summit to Rio+20: integration of health and sustainable development
NewFeatureIn June 2012, world leaders will met at the Rio+20 conference to advance sustainable development—20 years after the Earth Summit that resulted in agreement on important principles but insuffi cient action. Many of the development goals have not been achieved partly because social (including health), economic, and environmental priorities have not been addressed in an integrated manner. Adverse trends have been reported in many key environmental indicators that have worsened since the Earth Summit. Substantial economic growth has occurred in many regions but nevertheless has not benefi ted many populations of low income and those that have been marginalised, and has resulted in growing inequities. Variable progress in health has been made, and inequities are persistent. Improved health contributes to development and is underpinned by ecosystem stability and equitable economic progress. Implementation of policies that both improve health and promote sustainable development is urgently needed.
Guide to Development in Manchester - Supplementary Planning Document and Planning Guidance (SPD)
NewFeatureGuide to Development in Manchester - Supplementary Planning Document and Planning Guidance (SPD. This Supplementary Planning Document is all about bringing together those development principles that we believe will assist in the creation of such a City. Much of the current document has been drawn from the highly successful previous editions of the Guide to Development in Manchester. The overall message has not changed but the adoption of this Guide as a Supplementary Planning Document and Planning Guidance will help to provide more certainty for all those involved in the development process.
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012
NewFeatureNew Report on poverty in work from Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Public health briefings for local government
NewFeatureNICE has developed public health briefings for a range of different topics. These briefings are meant for local authorities and their partner organisations in the health and voluntary sectors, in particular those involved with health and wellbeing boards. These briefings will be relevant to local authority officers and councillors, directors of public health, and commissioners and directors of adult social care and children's services. It will also be relevant to members of local authority scrutiny committees. The briefings may also be used alongside the local joint strategic needs assessment to support the development of joint health and wellbeing strategies.
- Alcohol Briefing
- NICE Guidance and Public Health Outcomes Briefing
- Health Inequalities and Population Briefing
Public health briefings for local government cont/....
NewFeatureReuniting health with planning: healthier homes, healthier communities
NewFeature‘Reuniting health with planning: healthier homes, healthier communities’ (published in July 2012) handbook is the first of its kind since the Government set out a radical reform agenda across the planning and health sectors in England, including a requirement on planners to work with public health organisations, and a new public health responsibility for local authorities. It explains the relevance of these reforms for health and planning, and gives planners and public health practitioners ideas for how they can work together. The handbook aims to keep the importance of integrated working, specifically between planning and health, on the agenda. Using case studies from around England, it explores how places are using this time of change to push forward their intention to integrate their work across both sectors.
Social Determinants - Addressing the social determinants of health: the urban dimension and the role of local government
NewFeatureThis report summarizes the evidence on the social determinants of health in the urban context, drawing on the findings of the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health and the European review of social determinants of health and the health divide. It also highlights how, through its leadership, local government can play a significant role in addressing these causes of health inequalities, by working across sectors and with civil society partners.
Journal of Urban Health - Special Edition
NewFeatureWHO and The Journal of Urban Health are working on a Special Edition on Phase IV of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. The following links provide access to articles already published online. These will form part of the special edition.
- Healthy Cities: Facilitating the Active Participation and Empowerment of Local People
- Promoting Active Living in Healthy Cities of Europe
- Health Impact Assessment in a Network of European Cities
- Evaluation of Partnership Working in Cities in Phase IV of the WHO Healthy Cities Network
- Healthy Cities Indicators—A Suitable Instrument to Measure Health?
Journal of Urban Health
NewFeatureThe following links provide access to previously released articles from WHO and the Journal of Urban Health.
- Do Healthy Cities Work? A Logic of Method for Assessing Impact and Outcome of Healthy Cities
- Intersectoral Planning for City Health Development
Urban Planning for Healthy Cities - A Review of the Progress of the European Healthy Cities Programme
NewFeatureThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the progress made by European cities in relation to Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) during Phase IV of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities programme (2003–2008). The introduction sets out the general principle of HUP, identifying three levels or phases of health and planning integration. This leads on to a more specific analysis of the processes and substance of HUP, which provide criteria for assessment of progress. The assessment itself relies on two sources of data provided by the municipalities: the Annual Review Templates (ARTs) 2008 and the response to the Phase IV General Evaluation Questionnaire.
University of the West of England UWE
NewFeatureOnline short courses present opportunities for health and planning practitioners to develop collaborative practice. Online training is available to explore issues around health and the urban environment, and in particular its relationship with planning practice and what it means for communities. To book please click on the more information link below
My Health Matters
“My Health Matters” A community led intervention to reduce health inequalities related to physical activity and healthy eating
Governance for Health in the 21st Century
A range of collaborative governance mechanisms has developed in many policy arenas in the past decade. The study on governance for health in the 21st century tracks governance innovations that have been introduced to address priority determinants of health and summarizes them as five strategic approaches to smart governance for health. The study relates the emergence of joint action of the health sector and non-health sectors, of public and private actors and of citizens to achieve seminal changes in 21st-century societies. They include a new understanding of health and well-being as key features of what constitutes a successful society and vibrant economy and the higher value placed on equity and participation. The study further describes the type of structures and mechanisms that enable collaboration and outlines the new role that health ministers and ministries and public health agencies need to adopt in such a challenging policy environment.
“Sustainable drainage systems - maximising the benefits for people and wildlife, a guide for local authorities and developers”.
We are seeing more and more water shortages and floods, sometimes and also in quick succession. This is partly because climate change is producing more extreme weather patterns but it also has a great deal to do with the way we manage the land. As we have removed hedges and woodlands and drained its natural wetlands, the countryside has become far less absorbent. As a consequence, rain in the hills now flows more rapidly down the streams and rivers into lowland towns and cities with potentially devastating results. There is also less time for the rain to soak in to the ground and less opportunity for natural reserves of drinking water to be replenished.
Health 2020 European Policy Framework
The Health 2020 policy framework has been developed through a fully participatory process with Member States and a wide variety of other interested parties across the European Region. Early drafts were considered and discussed at several meetings of the European Health Policy Forum for High-Level Government Officials and the Standing Committee of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (SCRC). This final draft includes revisions discussed at the fourth session of the nineteenth SCRC held in Geneva, Switzerland on 19 and 20 May 2012. The draft has also been informed by a full written consultation and very many more informal comments and observations.
A new approach to 21st century public health challenges
A presentation by Dr Ruth Hussey, OBE Regional Director of Public Health / Senior Medical Director DH and NHS North West on secondment to Public Health England Transition Team
Ageing well in Leeds - A Framework of principles for organisations that work with older people in Leeds
Examples of two pieces of work in Leeds
Assessing the Impact of the Economic Downturn on Health and Wellbeing
Liverpool Public Health Observatory (LPHO) was commissioned to produce a report on the health impact of the economic downturn. Through a literature review and analysis of key indicators the report assesses the evidence base for the impact of the economic downturn on mental and physical health and use of health and local authority services in the five Merseyside PCTs: Knowsley, Halton and St Helens, Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral. Included in the report is an assessment of effective interventions likely to aid local services in helping their population cope with the effects of the economic downturn.
Assets in Action & Asset based approaches for health improvement: redressing the balance
Assets in Action: Illustrating asset based approaches for health improvement This piece of research profiles the work of 19 projects with the aim of illustrating how asset based approaches are currently being applied in Scotland. The aim of this Concepts Series briefing paper is to present the current evidence and thinking on asset based approaches for health improvement, the background and rationale for these approaches, and the practical challenges of adopting these approaches in reality. It is also hoped that this paper will help stimulate policy makers, practitioners and researchers to think differently about how they might minimise the risks of widening health inequalities and approach the goal of improving the health of communities and populations.
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) is co-directed by John L. McKnight, formerly the director of community studies at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, and his long-time collaborator in community research, John P. Kretzmann, a faculty member in the School of Education and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Associate. Challenging the traditional approach to solving urban problems, which focuses service providers and funding agencies on the needs and deficiencies of neighborhoods, Kretzmann and McKnight have demonstrated that community assets are key building blocks in sustainable urban and rural community revitalization efforts.
BMA Healthy transport = Healthy lives
A report from the BMA - The aim of this report is to demonstrate the positive effect that integrating health into transport policy will have. It proposes areas for action that prioritise health for all relevant transport sectors. This report is intended for transport, energy, sustainability and climate change policy makers with strategic or operational responsibility for public health and health promotion in the UK, and will be of interest to health professionals and the public.
Brighton and Hove Healthy Cities Video
Short Video outlining the Healthy Cities Programme in Brighton and Hove
British attitudes to lesbian, gay and bisexual people in 2012
Stonewall - 2012 snapshot of social attitudes of LGB individuals, YouGov Survey2012 Britain’s legislative protections for gay people now make it a beacon around the world and Stonewall is proud to have been instrumental in securing many of those legal advances. However, we only need to look at some of the deeply offensive comments made by senior clerics about gay people recently - likening loving same-sex relationships to polygamy and bestiality - to see that prejudice remains deep-seated in some disproportionately vocal quarters. Thankfully this polling, conducted by YouGov among over 2,000 adults, clearly shows that these views are increasingly out of touch with modern Britain. The majority of people support what has been done to secure equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people but they also strongly support going further still. Seven in ten Britons – and, crucially, almost as many Britons of faith – agree with extending the legal form of marriage to same-sex couples.
Building Child Friendly Cities: A Framework for Action
This document provides a framework for defining and developing a Child Friendly City. It identifies the steps to build a local system of governance committed to fulfilling children’s rights. The framework translates the process needed to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by national governments into a local government process. The concept of Child Friendly Cities is equally applicable to governance of all communities which include children – large and small, urban and rural. The framework is intended to provide a foundation for adaptation to suit all localities.
Capacity Building for Health & Wellbeing through Health Literacy - Health and Wellbeing quick guide series
A series of quick guides designed in collaboration with North West Employers to help aid understanding of the current policies and terminology regarding health and wellbeing. As well as help those working in the NHS and local authorities understand a little more about each other's function and the everyday terminology that is used, the guides assist these groups to understand and operate within the changing NHS environment.
Capacity Building for Health & Wellbeing through Health Literacy - Health and Wellbeing quick guide series
Click the link above to go to the website where the Guides can be downloaded as PDF files.
Christmas Lecture, Sir Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland Assets for Health & New Approaches for Scotland
December 2011 Christmas Lecture, Sir Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland Assets for Health & New Approaches for Scotland
Commissioning - Food For Life Partnerships
The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. We aim to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food.
Community participation in local health and sustainable development (2003)
Community participation is a core part of Healthy Cities work. This document from WHO Europe briefly describes what community participation is and why it is important and provides specific guidance to people wishing to engage in their own community participation activities. In includes a number of illustrative case studies and reference materials.
THE CORE CITIES HEALTH NETWORK REPORT 'NEW HORIZONS AND NEW CHALLENGES'
The Core Cities Health Network is a network of Chief Executives of Core Cities PCTs set up in 2008 to work in close collaboration to improve public health and health outcomes in England’s eight biggest regional cities. The network successfully promotes close collaboration between core cities and other stakeholders who share common agenda issues and communicate models of best practice that could be adopted by other cities, both within the collaborative and beyond. In 2011, new cluster arrangements have increased the network’s population size, area covered and resource allocation.
DECiPHEr The environmental domain of municipal influence in European cities
The aim of DECiPHEr 1 is to produce a training package for European municipalities which helps decision-makers optimise the mix of city wide programmes and investments to maximise public health impacts. The initial focus is on CVD as the biggest cause of death and disability in Europe.
DECiPHEr Flyer
Dublin Declaration on Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
The Dublin Declaration on Age-Friendly Cities and Communities was launched on Wednesday, 28th September in City Hall Dublin. Representatives from all over the world including the Deputy Mayor of New York, the Mayor of Chia-Yi City, Taiwan, the Mayor of Rosario, Argentina and the Mayor of Udine, Italy gathered to sign the first ever international commitment to the principle of making our cities age-friendly.
The Food System: a prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development
A paper authored by Ilona Kickbusch on behalf of Health Promotion Switzerland: Triggering Debate – White Paper - The Food System: a prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development. This first paper deals with the food system as a prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development, and sets the attainment of a sustainable food system – “a system that can supply safe, healthy food with positive social benefits and low environmental impacts” (Ambler- Edwards et al., 2009) – as the joint policy goal. It is aimed both at the health promotion and the sustainable development community.
From the Earth Summit to Rio+20: integration of health and sustainable development
In June 2012, world leaders will met at the Rio+20 conference to advance sustainable development—20 years after the Earth Summit that resulted in agreement on important principles but insuffi cient action. Many of the development goals have not been achieved partly because social (including health), economic, and environmental priorities have not been addressed in an integrated manner. Adverse trends have been reported in many key environmental indicators that have worsened since the Earth Summit. Substantial economic growth has occurred in many regions but nevertheless has not benefi ted many populations of low income and those that have been marginalised, and has resulted in growing inequities. Variable progress in health has been made, and inequities are persistent. Improved health contributes to development and is underpinned by ecosystem stability and equitable economic progress. Implementation of policies that both improve health and promote sustainable development is urgently needed.
Governance for health in the 21st century: a study conducted for the WHO Regional Office for Europe
Mind-sets on how we view and address health and its determinants have shifted. Two challenges go hand in hand: (1) the governance of the health system and health systems strengthening, which are what we refer to as ‘health governance’; and (2) the joint action of health and non-health sectors, of the public and private sectors and of citizens for a common interest in what we call ‘governance for health’. The latter is the subject of this study.
Guide to Development in Manchester - Supplementary Planning Document and Planning Guidance (SPD)
Guide to Development in Manchester - Supplementary Planning Document and Planning Guidance (SPD. This Supplementary Planning Document is all about bringing together those development principles that we believe will assist in the creation of such a City. Much of the current document has been drawn from the highly successful previous editions of the Guide to Development in Manchester. The overall message has not changed but the adoption of this Guide as a Supplementary Planning Document and Planning Guidance will help to provide more certainty for all those involved in the development process.
Health 2020 - The new European policy for health: vision, values, main directions and approaches
This paper presents the Regional Director's proposals on the scope, vision, values, main directions, and strategic assumptions and approaches (including the process and products) related to the new European policy for health – Health 2020.
Health 2020 - The new European policy for health
This is a first draft of the Health 2020 policy. It is still very much a work in progress. It is informed by strategic and technical input from all the technical divisions of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and reflects advice received by the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee and the European Health Policy Forum of High Level Officials.
Health 2020 - A brief overview: a new approach to health and well-being in Europe
Health 2020 - Initial consultation with local governments on the new health policy for the WHO European Region
Health 2020 The New European Policy for Health Draft Policy framework and strategy
The consultation period has now ended an open Invitation was disseminated to Nongovernmental Organizations to participate in the written consultation on the new European policy for health, Health 2020. Three documents where available for written consultation: the short Health 2020 policy document, which contains the key evidence, arguments and areas for policy action in the Health 2020 Policy Framework addressing the public health challenges and opportunities for promoting health and well-being in the European Region. the longer Health 2020 policy framework, which provides the contextual analysis and the main strategies and interventions that work to implement the Health 2020 policy; and the European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services, which is also a central arm for implementation of Health 2020.
- Health 2020 Consulatation Long
- Health 2020 Consultation Short
- European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services
Health inequalities and determinants in the physical urban environment: Evidence briefing
This working paper has been written to support research into the spatial and physical determinants in the urban environment that lead to health inequalities. The evidence is based on a rapid trawl for relevant research that we found whilst compiling an ‘Evidence Review on the Spatial Determinants of Health in Urban Settings’ (Grant et al., 2009) for the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn; and a subsequent update for a briefing note prepared for the WHO European Healthy Cities movement annual meeting in Sandnes in 2010. We also include here a new brief conclusion and discussion.
Healthy Cities Annual Business Meeting Report
World Health Organistion (WHO) European Healthy Cities Network and Network of European National Healthy Cities Networks ‘Governance for Health at the local level: people, citizens and assets for health’ Report on the WHO business and technical conference Liège, Belgium 15th-18th June 2011.
Healthy lives, healthy people: Improving outcomes and supporting transparency – A public health outcomes framework for England 2013 - 2016
This update sets out the new Public Health Outcomes Framework. In three parts, Part 1 introduces the overarching vision for public health, the outcomes to achieve and the indicators that will help us to understand how well we are improving health. Part 2 specifies all the technical details that can currently be supplied for each public health indicator and indicates where there will be a need to conduct further work to fully specify all indicators, and Part 3 consists of Impact Assessment and Equalities Impact Assessment.
Healthy Places
To support local areas in maximising the contribution of the planning system, the National Heart Forum has developed an interactive on-line ‘Healthy Places’ resource, funded by the Department of Health. Through easy-to-use explanations of legal issues, case studies and links to further guidance, the resource provides information and examples of how the planning system can be used by planning and health practitioners to promote and support healthy living.
IDeA (2010) A glass half full: how an asset approach can improve community health and wellbeing, available:
This publication was commissioned by the Improvement and Development Agency’s (IDeA) Healthy Communities Programme. The Healthy Communities programme brings together a wide range of programmes and activities with one clear aim – to help local government improve the health of their local communities.
The impact of the economic downturn and policy changes on health inequalities in London
Health inequalities in London are stark. Between London boroughs there are life expectancy gaps of 9.1 years for men and 8.7 for women, and healthy life expectancy gaps of 11 years for men and 10.5 for women. This literature review is the first stage in work aimed at assessing and monitoring the impact of the recession and welfare reforms on health inequalities in London. The report highlights the importance of sufficient incomes, decent housing and active labour market programmes, focused on those groups most at need. But how can cash-strapped boroughs make this happen? This report provides suggestions, and will be used as the basis for local tools to enable targeted action on the priority risk areas.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - The impact of employment changes on poverty in 2020
How will changes in the structure of employment and pay affect income inequality and poverty levels by 2020? Projections suggest long-term labour market trends are set to continue. Examining the impact of these changes on income inequality and poverty levels, this study: ■ Forecasts a rise in income inequality and poverty levels. ■ Cites expected cuts in benefits and tax credits as a major cause of these rises. ■ Suggests the impact on the overall level of relative poverty and inequality forecast for 2020/21 made by changes imposed on employment and pay structures will be small. Conducted at a time when the role of skills development in a reformed welfare-to-work policy environment is high on the policy agenda, and when job prospects for less qualified workers look likely to remain poor, this research is a timely contribution to a growing debate.
LGID (2010) The role of local government in promoting wellbeing
This report presents the findings of a project commissioned Local Government Improvement and Development and the National Mental Health Development Unit.
Living Streets
Living Streets is a national charity that stands up for pedestrians, working to create safe, attractive and enjoyable streets where people want to walk. They aim to influence decision makers and work with local people and professionals so that everyone is able to use and enjoy their streets. The charity also aims to give a voice to pedestrians, and involving people is central to what they do.
Living Well across Local Communities - North West Public Health (2010)
Living Well, developed through a process of engagement and consultation across the North West, describes a way of working to remove entrenched inequalities.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Vol 11, No 2 (2012): Special Issue - Health Equity The International Journal of Qualitative Methods (ISSN: 16094069) is a peer reviewed journal published quarterly as a web-based journal by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and its international affiliates. Our goals are to advance the development of qualitative methods, and to disseminate methodological knowledge to the broadest possible community of academics, students, and professionals who undertake qualitative research. By keeping the journal free of charge, we hope to reach an audience who, for whatever reason, do not read traditional, subscription -based journals.
Measuring Well-being A guide for practitioners
This short handbook on measuring well-being is produced by the Centre for Well-being at nef (the new economics foundation) with input from nef consulting. It is designed primarily for voluntary organisations and community groups delivering projects and services, to help them kick-start the process of measuring well-being outcomes.
MESA Report and Briefing Paper
An update of alcohol sales and price analyses was published by NHS Health Scotland on 31st August 2011 as part of their work Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS). In March 2011, the MESAS baseline report was published. This included trends in per adult consumption estimates based on alcohol sales data for 1994-2009 and summary information regarding the price at which off-trade alcohol was sold through the off-trade. This report updates these figures with 2010 data and presents new analysis to inform the development and evaluation of Scotland’s alcohol strategy.
MESAS - Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy
Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) is a portfolio of evaluation studies led by NHS Health Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government (2010-2015). The following link provides access to more detailed information.
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2012
New Report on poverty in work from Joseph Rowntree Foundation
National Planning Policy Framework
The National Planning Policy Framework is a key part of our reforms to make the planning system less complex and more accessible, to protect the environment and to promote sustainable growth
NCD - Contribution of local policies
This report examines the potential health impact of public policy on non- communicable disease and considers the potential for policy amendments at a local authority level relating to the areas of alcohol, nutrition and physical activity. The report brings together evidence from international literature and the opinions of local policy makers, to create achievable, evidence-based recommendations for policy action. The recommendations are therefore a realistic assessment of the policy changes that are likely to be both feasible and effective and whilst Liverpool focused it provides valuable information and insight that could be applied much wider.
PANacea
PANacea is an online network linking the global physical activity and nutrition community. PANacea is a communication tool between public health practitioners in order to improve quality of services, enable health initiatives to progress more quickly and with lower set up costs, support professional development through peer support and contributes to a stronger community that can respond to emerging challenges locally, nationally and globally. The site is maintained by the National Heart Forum.
Public health briefings for local government
NICE has developed public health briefings for a range of different topics. These briefings are meant for local authorities and their partner organisations in the health and voluntary sectors, in particular those involved with health and wellbeing boards. These briefings will be relevant to local authority officers and councillors, directors of public health, and commissioners and directors of adult social care and children's services. It will also be relevant to members of local authority scrutiny committees. The briefings may also be used alongside the local joint strategic needs assessment to support the development of joint health and wellbeing strategies.
- Alcohol Briefing
- NICE Guidance and Public Health Outcomes Briefing
- Health Inequalities and Population Briefing
Public health briefings for local government cont/....
Reuniting health with planning: healthier homes, healthier communities
‘Reuniting health with planning: healthier homes, healthier communities’ (published in July 2012) handbook is the first of its kind since the Government set out a radical reform agenda across the planning and health sectors in England, including a requirement on planners to work with public health organisations, and a new public health responsibility for local authorities. It explains the relevance of these reforms for health and planning, and gives planners and public health practitioners ideas for how they can work together. The handbook aims to keep the importance of integrated working, specifically between planning and health, on the agenda. Using case studies from around England, it explores how places are using this time of change to push forward their intention to integrate their work across both sectors.
Social Determinants - Addressing the social determinants of health: the urban dimension and the role of local government
This report summarizes the evidence on the social determinants of health in the urban context, drawing on the findings of the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health and the European review of social determinants of health and the health divide. It also highlights how, through its leadership, local government can play a significant role in addressing these causes of health inequalities, by working across sectors and with civil society partners.
Social Determinants - Interim second report on social determinants of health and the health divide in the WHO European Region
This review will inform the new European policy for health – Health 2020. It will accelerate action on socially determined health inequities by developing policies that work in low-, middle- and high-income countries. It draws on best practices, examples and experience of addressing social determinants of health and health inequities in the Region and how to take this to scale. One of the key goals of the review is to identify what works and how to implement it across the diverse context of the European Region.
Social Determinants - Addressing the social determinants of health: the urban dimension and the role of local government
Social Determinants - Consultation on the social determinants of health and the health divide in the WHO European Region: European review of social determinants of health and the health divide
WHO European Region has put social determinants and health equity at the centre of its revitalized public health agenda and, for this reason, the WHO Regional Director for Europe commissioned this Review. It will inform Health 2020, as will a companion study on governance for health in the 21st century.
Social Determinants - European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide – Consultation Questions
The consultation will be linked to the consultations on the new policy for health in the WHO European Region. Through these processes of consultation and dialogue, a diversity of voices and country perspectives will be reflected in the development of the review, increasing its relevance and robustness as a tool for action to improve health on equal terms in the European Region.
Social Determinants - Healthy cities tackle the social determinants of inequities in health: a framework for action ( A working document for consultation)
The framework is intended as a resource document for the WHO European Healthy Cities Network, clarifying certain concepts and offering examples of actions cities might wish to try. These include tools and information available through the WHO European Healthy Cities Network or other WHO programmes and the expertise and experience of other cities.
Sustrans ‘Solutions for Life’ Annual review 2010
Sustrans makes smarter travel choices possible, desirable and inevitable. They are a leading UK charity enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the journeys we make every day. They work with families, communities, policy-makers and partner organisations so that people are able to choose healthier, cleaner and cheaper journeys, with better places and spaces to move through and live in.
Transition Network
A Transition Initiative (which could be a city, town, village, university or island) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction. Transition is one of the fastest growing social movements and Transition Network's role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions. The booklet Who we are and what we do by Rob Hopkins and Peter Lipman provides a brief introduction.
TRANSITION TOWNS: An Interview with Rob Hopkins
The founder of a growing movement shows us around 'Transition Town Totnes' in Devon and talks about peak oil, the origin of the Transition Towns concept and ...
From Transition to Transformation in Public Health
From transition to transformation in public health A resource to assist the transfer of public health to local authorities The transfer of the public health function from the NHS to local government is now well underway, with the pace of change set to accelerate.The purpose of this resource is to assist local authorities and public health to develop a local public health system that is designed to have the greatest potential for improving health, not just in councils but with all local partners. The focus is on transformation, showing how councils and public health are going beyond the practical steps of transition to develop a local vision public health, supported by new models for implementation. The resource complements other information focused on transactional issues such as HR and finance; it incorporates guidance issued up to the start of February 2012.
Travel Actively
Travel Actively is a portfolio of 50 projects being delivered by the Active Travel Consortium: a partnership of leading walking, cycling and health organisations committed to providing opportunities for 1.8 million people to become more physically active through daily travel choices. Travel Actively projects have already provided opportunities for over 1.5 million people to become physically active through active travel and have generated a body of evidence showing how regular active travel can positively impact on health and well-being.
Twenty Steps for developing a Healthy City project (1997)
This WHO publication is intended to provide guidance and a reference framework for cities that are in the process of introducing a Healthy Cities project or, indeed, reviewing and expanding an existing one. The booklet's main thrust describes the three phases of development: the starting up process, project organization and areas for action and strategic work.
Twenty years of Healthy Cities 1988 – 2008 (video)
This short video provides an overview of the first 20 years of the Healthy Cities movement and recalls some of the key issues impacting on urban health: social change; conflict; environmental change; communication development; inequity; urbanization; globalization; the Rio Declaration; EU expansion; Health 21.
Journal of Urban Health - Special Edition
WHO and The Journal of Urban Health are working on a Special Edition on Phase IV of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. The following links provide access to articles already published online. These will form part of the special edition.
- Healthy Cities: Facilitating the Active Participation and Empowerment of Local People
- Promoting Active Living in Healthy Cities of Europe
- Health Impact Assessment in a Network of European Cities
- Evaluation of Partnership Working in Cities in Phase IV of the WHO Healthy Cities Network
- Healthy Cities Indicators—A Suitable Instrument to Measure Health?
Journal of Urban Health
The following links provide access to previously released articles from WHO and the Journal of Urban Health.
- Do Healthy Cities Work? A Logic of Method for Assessing Impact and Outcome of Healthy Cities
- Intersectoral Planning for City Health Development
Urban Planning for Healthy Cities - A Review of the Progress of the European Healthy Cities Programme
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the progress made by European cities in relation to Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) during Phase IV of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities programme (2003–2008). The introduction sets out the general principle of HUP, identifying three levels or phases of health and planning integration. This leads on to a more specific analysis of the processes and substance of HUP, which provide criteria for assessment of progress. The assessment itself relies on two sources of data provided by the municipalities: the Annual Review Templates (ARTs) 2008 and the response to the Phase IV General Evaluation Questionnaire.
University of the West of England UWE
Online short courses present opportunities for health and planning practitioners to develop collaborative practice. Online training is available to explore issues around health and the urban environment, and in particular its relationship with planning practice and what it means for communities. To book please click on the more information link below
- The Built Environment as a Determinant of Health
- Healthy Sustainable Communities
- Sustainability Threshold Analysis: The Spectrum Approach
- Health Impact Assessment
- Understanding the Neighbourhood as a Setting for Health
Webinar - C2 Connecting Communities
Presentation from the online seminar C2 Connecting Communities delivered by Hazel Stuteley Step Zero “Go to the people, live amongst them, start with what they have, build with them, and when the deed is done, the mission accomplished, of the best leadership, the people will say, “we have done it for ourselves.” Lao Tze(600BC)
Welfare Reform Act
The Bill provides for the introduction of a 'Universal Credit' to replace a range of existing means-tested benefits and tax credits for people of working age, starting from 2013. The Bill follows the November 2010 White Paper, 'Universal Credit: welfare that works', which set out the Coalition Government’s proposals for reforming welfare to improve work incentives, simplify the benefits system and tackle administrative complexity. Besides introducing Universal Credit and related measures, the Bill makes other significant changes to the benefits system.
What makes us healthy? The asset approach in practice: evidence, action, evaluation'
The follow-up to the hugely popular 'A glass half-full' has been published today and is available as a free download from What makes us healthy? The asset approach in practice: evidence, action, evaluation'* By Jane Foot, with a foreword by Professor Sir Michael Marmot and an introduction by Jane Foot and Trevor Hopkins 'What makes us healthy?' has information on the evidence for the beneficial effects of assets such as social relationships and networks on health and wellbeing; ideas about how to put asset principles into practice; and help with assessing whether these new ways of working are having an impact. This publication will inspire and support those who want to look again at what they are doing to improve health and wellbeing and to tackle health inequalities.
City leadership for health. Summary evaluation of Phase IV of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network (2008)
This summary evaluation of Phase IV of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network reviews the organization of healthy cities, their enduring values and their work on the core themes of health impact assessment, healthy ageing, healthy urban planning and active living. It gives 23 messages for city decision-makers and the international public health community.
Zagreb Declaration for Healthy Cities (2009)
The Zagreb Declaration expresses the clear and strong commitment of political leaders of cities in Europe to strengthen and champion action on health, health equity, sustainable development and social justice. It reviews plans and priorities for Phase V (2009–2013) of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and national healthy cities networks in Europe and identifies how regional and national governments and WHO can support and benefit from these approaches.
